The Old Folks Home

[trumpeting_angel]

There is one ditch, but not near the driveway.

I think they measure the snow down there in inches, rather than feet. Might not need ditches for the runoff.

 

[microchick]

Come to the midwest! We had plenty of snow this morning! I read where Chicago broke a 90+ year record by having an 1.5 inch snowfall this morning. No downhill but enough to do cross country before it mostly melted by 3pm.

They make the news with 1.5 inches. They mentioned Iowa, Ill and Wisconsin. HEY! 3" in Northern Missouri, UPI and AP!

 

[bruceha2000]

Killington should be opening soon. They "pride" themselves on the length of the ski season even if they only have one trail open and spend a fortune making snow on it until the temps stay cold enough for it not to melt and the real stuff shows up.

 

[pennyJo1960]

The Son is waiting outside we put Raggedy Ann on the ghostly swing have a leaping spider now also told him hold off on the candy till later please

 

[getaclue]

One neighbor way down to the left of us, has his crew, doing tractor work at another neighbor's house way down to the right of us. I guess they needed something, because one of the guys jumped on the 4 wheeler, and hauled butt back to the barn way down on the right of us. He got whatever, and was pedal to the metal on the 4 wheeler, headed back to where they were working, but he was NOT paying attention. He crashed into a tree. Neighbor took the tractor to the tree, and the guy got into the scoop. They headed back to the barn, so they could get him to the hospital. The 4 wheeler sustained serious damage too. It had to be towed back to the barn as well.

We caught the whole thing on our surveillance system. Everybody is wanting a copy of the clip.

 

[Bunnylady]

I guess he didn't understand that you have to give trees a bit of time to get out of the way.

(Seriously, I hope he wasn't badly hurt, and mends quickly).

 

[microchick]

Back in IL it was unusual not to have somebody killed on a 4 wheeler at least once a year.

One day here we heard the sound of a 4 wheeler going down the road like a bat out of you know where. It was really clipping along with a big cloud of dust following it. We got to the front windows in time to see one of those deluxe jobs with a roof go zipping by the house doing warp 8 with a girl that I swear looked to be 12 at the controls. That went on most of the summer. We knew where she was coming from and where she was going. DH yelled at her once to slow down. I swore if I could get her to stop I was going to tell her about the young people who were killed about a half mile down the road when they missed a curve and nosed first into a creek bed.

I was going to tell her that I was a nurse and I did not want to be the first to reach her mangled lifeless body, check for a pulse and have to give her hopeless cpr and then comfort her parents when they reached the scene of her crash and discovered that she was dead or worse.....

They always think it cannot happen to them. When it does they are saying 'why did this happen to me..'

Sure hope the guy wasn't seriously injured.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Didn’t know you were a nurse Micro. That seems like it would be a very tough job. we have family friends who are nurses (literally like the whole family lol) and I definitely don’t envy them. Tough gig.

They love it though.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I myself should probably work on slowing down









and also not using the phone while driving

 

[microchick]

Yep, graduated from training in 1975, retired in 2015. Yes it's very tough and heartbreaking at times but definitely rewarding. If I had it to do over again would I......no. But then careers for women in 1975 weren't the same as they are now. Now I probably would have chosen something like physical therapist if I wanted a medical career. But I'd probably not choose medicine again. Too much about what the insurance companies think is good for a patient and not enough about what the doctors and nurses think.

Now I probably would have gone into CGI imaging/art.